News archive, 1998-12, en

Undemocratic elections
New Year's Resolutions
Your falling stars for the coming year
Changing face of Advent
Rapping in Riga
Seeing in the new year, Russian style
Parallel worlds cross at Swedish conference
Uniting in Lithuania
Hanging stockings in Latvia and Lithuania
Fairy tales by candlelight
Stock markets: weekly report (December 4 - 11)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Latvian market still the biggest loser
Chairman's report on the Baltic Group
Scandinavian firm to build Riga terminal
Santa's sweet tooth
Christmas brings big bucks
Ho ho ho and a bottle of Christmas beer
Summed up
Estonia anticipates the euro
Law limits business opportunities
Getting Belarus to cough up the cash
Mortgage money will silence leaking toilets
Computer assembler fears coming apart
Naglis stays at his post
Mending fences, moving West
Outcome of Vienna verdict
Russia steps up its anti-NATO campaign
A peek at next year's newsmakers
Conservatives disagree over anti-communist law
Russian official accused of spying
Giant trees and rich tradition
Lithuania 1998: Start of something big?
Time for Coca Cola Santas
Latvia in 1998: From frying pan to fire
Estonia presses on with WTO talks
Estonia 1998: The road West gets rougher
Swedes plead Lithuania's case
Parliament to ratify WTO agreement
UNDP releases development report
Most of Lithuania behind Ignalina
Judgment day for nuclear plant
All quiet on the Western front
BALTIC MEN OF THE YEAR
Latvia, Lithuania weather EU setback
Pushing federalism, fighting disease
Just take it easy, pal
THE BEAR'S BARRIER
SMOOTH MOVE
The best time to go to the cinema
Talented in Tallinn
Making movies out of nightmares
Vodka, with some assembly required
Seafarer finds her feet in Tallinn
Stock markets: weekly report (November 27 - December 4)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Baltic markets move in different directions
Latvian court declares Viktorija bankrupt
Lithuania, Belarus solve energy problem
Latvia to use less sugar
Milking the cows
Businessmen, military at odds over Zokniai airport
The road to better exports
Swedbank to expand Baltic activity
Baltic specialists evaluate the Russian crisis
Estonian Air lands new partner
Summed up
Lithuania launches new oil concern
Petrol prices rise in Estonia
Chicken prices nothing to crow about
Exports to Russia inch up
Hunger strikers finally pack upÉ for now
Danes storm security market
Learning a new mother tongue
Universal Human Rights Declaration
Three tons of Russian guns seized at border
Latvians think public services are on the take
Basketball takes center stage
Western Europe abolishes Baltic visa requirements
Klaipeda improves waste-water plant
Social Democrats offered agriculture
How long is this short man's reach?
Protesters gather outside Parliament
Meri warns against stagnation
Off the Wire
Estonian official: EU education necessary
Expansion could slow after Vienna
Coup leaders face harsh sentence
Ivanov reiterates Russia's anti-enlargement stance
Russia sends mixed signals to Riga
A slow but promising beginning in Tallinn: Russian-Estonian commission holds first meeting
Cold kills a dozen in Latvia's capital
Close calls on the high seas
Estonia amends citizenship law: Naturalization eased for nearly 6,000 stateless children
Dealing with disasters
A sickening spectacle
Live and losing it in Lithuania
Singing Latvia's praises
Shalom club provides necessary shove
Holiday wish list
UNICEF cards that help out
Stock markets: weekly report (November 20 - 27)
Earnings of the listed and to-be-listed companies
Latvian Unibanka is the cheapest asset for Sweden
State to control Klaipeda oil
Oil terminal heads Estonian Top 100
EBRD to finance sawmill modernization
State cheers sale of telephone company
Survey cuts through economic fog
The Swedish are coming
Unibanka submits documents to central bank
Bank hooked to international network
Foreign investment key to Baltic success
Summed up
Financial Times rates Lithuania
Estonia's born-again bank starts fresh
Crisis highlights faults in free trade agreement
Baltics want end to pork war
Vilniaus Bankas wraps up Swedish deal
Lithuanians in Poland ask for help
Oil spill in Tallinn port under control
Baltic banks get low marks from OECD
Journalist seeks asylum in Lithuania
Scrambled brains and help campaigns
Farmers protest near border points
Mending broken soles
Frosty November will go down in history
Belarusian pensioners fight for survival
Explosion puts more heat on railways
HIV infections rise dramatically
Electoral alliance ban brings confusion
Tougher language amendment rejected: Elected officials do not need high Estonian proficiency
Off the Wire
Suspected arms dealer charged
Ignalina shuts downÉagain
Foreign policy goals shift
Baltic Assembly focuses on NATO
Death threats, secret sackings
Cleaning up a costly past
Minister resigns, government could face crisis
Latvia forms minority government

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